Coleman Steel Creek Tent (6-Person)
$144.99
$229.99
37% off
Reference Price
Condition: New
Style: Pfas-free
Top positive review
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Handles wind and rain like a champ!
By J. M. on Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2025
I bought this tent 7 years ago for car-camping trips. The 3 person backpacking tent we had was great but it was just too small for me, my wife and our grandson. Spent some time shopping and reading reviews. This tent had good reviews and a decent price. Done. We have used the tent probably 10 times for a total of 30-40 nights and it is so nice to have some extra room and you can almost stand up straight inside it. I LOVE the little screened in porch. Have camped when bugs were an issue and it's just big enough to put 2 chairs in there and you can eat your hotdog away from flying insects! The "easy set up" claims are a bit overstated- it is not "easy" to set up. We struggle some every time we pitch this thing. I've been camping and backpacking for more than 50 years and I have had tents that I would say are really easy to set up and some that are not. On a scale of 1-10 I'd give this a 5 or 6. Packing it back into the weird gusseted bag is a little harder that putting it up. We have replaced the shock cords inside the poles due to dry rot of the rubber a couple of years ago but that was not hard and it was not expensive. Looking at this thing over the years I had NO confidence that it would keep the water out if it rained but didn't really think about that too much because we live - and do most of our camping - in the desert southwest where it hardly ever rains. Around here a tent is mostly to keep the bugs and other small critters away. So why- after 7 years- am I writing this review NOW? Well, we just returned from a windy, rainy 4 night camping trip on the Arizona/ Utah border and this thing ROCKED! Mind you it is 7 years old. It has been stored in an uninsulated attic space in Tucson Arizona for all of those 7 years. and after a wind driven rain soaked camping trip the inside was BONE DRY! I am SO impressed. It also stood up well in winds that scattered our 2-burner stove, chairs and cooking utensils around the campsite. This tent has totally exceeded my expectations. Well done Coleman!!
Top critical review
1 people found this helpful
Great tent, wrong color!
By Midtown Mike on Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2021
Used this tent to camp for the first time. It look me a while to set it up by myself, as I haven't been camping in over a decade and it was a new tent, so I wanted to follow the directions step by step to make sure I did it right. Normally, I would love this color, but am more of a blue color person myself. What I didn't realize when setting up the tent the first time, was that the tent and patio screen doors were unzipped while setting it up and I inadvertently setup my tent near a bush that ended up being the home for A BUNCH of yellow jackets. And what color are the yellow jacket traps? Exactly. So by the time I got it set up and went into the tent to find 3 yellow jackets already buzzing around inside the top of the tent trying to get out and several outside. Then I had to unstake 3/4 of the tent so I could flip it on it's back end to try to get them out of the entry. I ended up having to move it as well to a different location, but I believe cause of the color, they followed me there as well. Luckily, they didn't seem aggressive, just annoying. I eventually got them out and having the separate screened porch became a great "staging" area, so that I could make sure none were in that area, before opening up the main sleeping area. But come morning, I woke up to the loud buzzing sound of about a dozen of them swarming above my head, luckily OUTSIDE the tent, but trapped underneath the rain tarp, so they were all stuck in there and wouldn't leave. That woke me up fast! Luckily none of them made it into the tent and there were some gaps near the bottom for cords etc that they could've found to come into. Some ALTERNATE non-yellow jacket attracting colors would be a great option for this tent Coleman! After I was able to get rid of most of them (luckily one of the guys had a trap in his truck), we ended up having an apparently medium sized "friendly" (non-aggressive), but hungry, female black bear (according to the rangers we talked to afterwards) sighting in the campsite during the next evening which also made for an uneasy camping trip. That night, I awoke to the sound of something trying to get into the bear box where we kept some of the food and liquor which was about 5-6 feet from my head. Fortunately (unfortunately?) the back end of the tent didn't have a screened zip up window, so I couldn't see the bear, nor could it see me (hopefully). So hopefully the noises I made just scared it off (besides waking the entire camp area). Part of me wished it had a window so I could see if that was a bear, if the bear was still nearby, as I could only see out the sides and the front and had to rely on sound. Needless to say, none of us slept well that night at all. So a different color tent and a screened in zip up window on the back I think would've been nicer to have, but I did love the porch part. But after that trip, it may be another decade before I got camping again. Anyone want a tent? :)
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